LCS mobile bearing knees

Mobile bearings were sufficiently different from fixed bearing devices that the FDA required a multicenter clinical study to be performed before they could be marketed in the United States. After the successful conclusion of the clinical trials in the early 1980s, the LCS mobile bearing knees were clinically... 

Buechel F.F., Jr. 2002. The LCS story. In LCS mobile bearing knee arthroplasty 25 years of worldwide experience. K.J. Hamelynck and J.B. Stiehl, Eds. Berlin Springer. 

Hamelynck KJ, Stiehl JB. LCS mobile bearing knee arthroplasty 25 years of worldwide experience. Berlin Springer 2002. 

Photograph of an LCS rotating platform mobile bearing total knee replacement. (Images provided courtesy of J.B. VanMeter, DePuy Orthopedics, Warsaw, IN.)... 

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